Analyzing My Texts Cultural Setting

The text I used in my last post, "Our 19th Century Curriculum," is the same I will be using below. For this post, I will be analyzing the cultural norms of this topic ad how the text relates to them by answering the three questions from Writing Public Lives.

Kosik, Joy. Screenshot of Writing Public Lives Questions. 10-3-2015.

1. Most people don't expect a lot of change from education because it has been so long since anything has changed. That's why Kessler opens his article by talking about something most people are worried about paying for: college. This grabs peoples' attention because directly afterwards, he says that going to college is practically useless since most students still will not be prepared to join the careers that are hiring. This is huge for a lot of people, and immediately gets them interested in change in education. Another norm for the culture Kessler is referencing seems to be going to school in the first place, as he assumes his audience are those either in or paying for kids to go to a university or some form of higher education. 
2. This text indirectly addresses these norms. Kessler talks about the price of college and goes on to suggest what may happen, and providing this scenario does address the norms, although not directly. 
3. This text is one of the many opinions on education, and more specifically, changes in education. Kessler supports change, and even goes into detail about each most popular major (with businesses) and how schooling could change to support these majors in college. Kessler wrote this article to try and convince more people that changing education is beneficial to all students going into careers after school. He hopes that in this way, education will be changed.